Your views count – make sure you have your say.

The government is investing an extra £20bn a year in the NHS. The NHS has produced a Long Term Plan, setting out all the things it wants health services to do better for people across the country. Now your local NHS wants to hear from you about what those changes should look like in your community. The Long Term Plan sets out what the NHS wants to do better, including making it easier for people to access support closer to home and via technology, doing more to help people stay well, and providing better support for people with cancer, mental health conditions, heart and lung diseases, long term conditions, such as diabetes and arthritis, learning disabilities and autism, and for people as they get older and experience conditions such as Dementia.

What happens next in Central Bedfordshire?

Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire are supporting the engagement around changes to your services in Central Bedfordshire and in addition to completing the survey, we would also like to invite you to attend a Focus Group, to gather feedback about general health and social care and to seek your views on how services could be improved to create better outcomes for people. We will also be holding future forums on specific conditions (mental health and cancer) and further details of these will be available shortly. If you would like to attend the general health and social care Focus Group please book on via info@healthwatch-centralbedfordshire.org.uk or talk directly to a member of the team on 0300 303 8554 (limited places available).

Date: Thursday 28th March 2019

Time: 10am-12.30pm (refreshments and lunch will be provided)

Venue: Flitwick Football Centre, Ampthill Road, Flitwick MK45 1BA

Parking is available at the venue and we can help with transport if needed – please contact the office direct.

Closing date for responses to the survey is the end of April 2019. Healthwatch across the country is finding out what local people think to help the NHS invest in the right services. Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire, as the co-ordinating Healthwatch across BLMK, will publish a public report about what people have told us. The NHS will then explain how they have responded to these views in the plans they produce.

Your voice counts – please take part in the survey and contact us direct (by 26.03.19) if you would like to take part in the Focus Group above to help shape the care and service you receive in Central Bedfordshire.